After Zhao Wantong and Huo went to say goodbye to their grandmother, they traveled east for three or four hours according to the instructions of their grandmother. They set out at noon and arrived at dusk.

Originally, a few miles away, the outside of the dry sea city was still lush green. But when I got to the city wall, there was no grass left. The gate was open, and a withered corpse hung on it. The clothes of the corpse have been weathered to the point that they do not look good, but Zhao Wantong and Huo Quzhi both know that the man is dressed in white, and he has a perennial smile on his face. What is even more commendable is that he is a good official who works hard for the people.

Huo Quzhi shook his head: "The current world is very chaotic. The villain is in power, and he will never bear it for a while! ”

Zhao Wantong: "Hmm. ”

According to the old woman, there was a ship port a few miles east of the city. It takes seven days to take a boat to the east, and ten days to Chang'an. They wore hats on their heads, and they were all poor and destitute everywhere they passed. Or to put it another way, it looks like a no-man's city, and the streets are pitch black at night. None of the shops or residential buildings were open, and they were lifeless. The more they walked, the more uneasy they became. Because they secretly wondered if there were any ships on the other side of the harbor now.

Sure enough, they had just arrived at the shipport. Not to mention a ship, not even a person!

Just as they were distressed, a girl about 15 or 16 years old walked out of the back.

She said, "Are you strangers? ”

Huo Quzhi took the lead in talking: "Exactly, dare to ask what happened here?" Not a single boat? ”

Girl, ponder for a moment. Hook your fingers at them, rubbing your thumb and forefinger against each other. Seeing this, Huo Quzhi quickly understood, took out a silver ingot from the money bag on his waist and threw it into the girl's palm.

The girl laughed: "Smart man! ”

Huo Quzhi smiled, "Then you can talk about it now." ”

The girl nodded, and quickly spoke to them.

After Liu Ziqi's death, this dry sea city is becoming more and more sluggish. The newly appointed dog official, singing songs day and night, began to loot the people's fat and ointment as soon as he had no money to spend, and he didn't treat the residents of Dry Sea City as human beings at all.

It also depends on who is unhappy and who will be arrested and imprisoned, it can be said that it all depends on his mood. So at that time, the people of Kuhai City felt that they couldn't indulge him like this anymore, so they wanted to secretly put down Liu Ziqi's body and take it away from here.

Unexpectedly, some of the city's citizens betrayed their actions for profit. When he was acting at night, he happened to be caught by the dog officer, and he executed more than a dozen leaders alive in front of all the city residents. The rest were sold to the nearby army as coolies, and they said that if anyone tried to escape in the future, they would end up like them.

The people of Dry Sea City are living in panic day after day, gradually dying. Now there may not be many houses left, and the streets have changed from bright lights to hell and no longer have a glimmer of light.

As for the boat, the children could still swim to a lotus pond farther away, and find some lotus pods from there to fill their stomachs.

A few days ago, the dog officer saw that the weather was hot and humid and came to the port to find out this little secret. One night, all the boats were robbed and the people were not allowed to go to the lake. The next day, he had to take Xinna's concubine to play.

As she spoke, the little girl actually cried and cried, and stuffed the silver in her hand back into Huo Quai's palm.

"My mother is sick...... I didn't mean to do this, but it occurred to me that I was ...... Where is there still medicine to buy in Dry Sea City now...... Really sorry ......"

Originally, Zhao Wantong thought that this girl was really good at business, but now she is a little helpless and pitiful. She exchanged glances with Huo Quzhi and took a packet of herbs from her baggage. This is what their grandmother forced when they went out before, saying that although it can't cure any disease, it is good for the body.

In fact, Zhao Wantong is not just a concept of good health, but just thinks that he can help a little, this pack of medicine should always be of some use.

"Here you go, take this medicine back and fry it for your mother to try, maybe it will work." Zhao Wantong handed the medicine to the little girl, and took some food from the burden to her, "Don't be hungry, go back early, it's not early." ”

The little girl looked at Zhao Wantong, her eyes were full of tears, she nodded and ran away around them.

They were stunned and saw that the little girl was gone, and then suddenly put a lid on their heads. I think, it's terrible. When they had made their way through the streets to get here, they hadn't seen an inn that had opened a shop. I didn't know where the girl lived just now, so I should have asked her if it was inconvenient to stay with them for one night, better than sleeping on the streets!

Chattering in his heart, Zhao Wantong muttered: "Why are you so brainless and don't keep her!" ”

Suddenly being detained by a strange crime, Huo Quzhi also said loudly: "Blame me? It's like you just stopped it? What's more, the last person to talk to her is you, not me! ”

"You, you, you!" Zhao Wantong didn't know why, so he felt angry and had a quarrel with Huo Quzhi in the harbor.

It wasn't until the night darkened the sky that they slowly walked to the outskirts where there was firewood to pick up and set up a fire.

When the fire was lit, the two sat in silence and sat a little distance apart. After all, lonely men and widows should always pay attention.

Huo Quzhi stared at the beating fire in silence, his side facial features were thin and straight, probably because of the heavy fog in the forest, and his eyelashes were covered with a dense layer of water droplets. The light-colored and somewhat dull eyes were unusually charming in the dim light of the fire.

Zhao Wantong was stunned for a while, although Huo Quzhi was still young, but he looked like Wei Qing in seven points, Zhao Wantong couldn't help but move when he looked at it, and immediately put his face aside.

I feel so ashamed!!

Huo Quzhi didn't notice this at all, took out a knife from his sleeve and cut a small tube of bamboo nearby, and carved a bamboo flute with a little shape after a few simple cuts.

Leaning on his lips, a melodious and tactful song. Although it was cut temporarily, there is no doubt that the person who made the flute was very careful, and the sound of the blow was accurate.

After Qu Bi, Huo Qu suddenly said, "Can we talk?" ”

Zhao Wantong: "Huh? ”

Huo Quzhi turned his head and looked at Zhao Wantong and said, "I don't think you are a bad person. ”

When Zhao Wantong heard this, he understood. It's probably a slum, and outsiders are flawed no matter what. Even when it comes to helping his little animal, it's inevitable that he can't relax.

And now, after experiencing the despair of life and death together, and now they are forced to sleep in the wild forest, it is time to let go of the mustard in their hearts.

Zhao Wantong smiled slightly: "Hmm." ”

It was quiet that night, there were no wild beasts, no wind, just two people, back to back, you and me.

Huo Quzhi and Zhao Wantong said that Wei Shao'er tricked him into going to the street and asked him to wait for her and then never returned, if he hadn't been saved by the couple in the slum, maybe he would have died on the street by now.

Huo Quzhi also said that he hated war, but in order to protect the people to protect, he had to fight. A man should defend his family and country.

Zhao Wantong smiled when he heard this: "Then you will be a general in the future to protect your family and defend the country." ”

In fact, this is indeed what Huo Quzhi wanted to do, but he said it directly from Zhao Wantong's mouth. He couldn't help but be stunned, it has changed a lot in the past few days.

Seems to like to talk too.

As soon as the sky sounded, Dongfang began to vomit a little redness. Not waiting, whitening. Zhao Wantong and Huo Qubing got up early and entered Kuhai City.

Since last night's chat, I have somehow tacitly understood a lot.

They have already drawn up a plan to deal with the dog officer, and they must make him look good!

The first step is to find out the news.

According to the information provided by the citizens of Kuhai City, today happens to be the fifteenth of every month. On this day, the dog officer always had to loot the people's fat and ointment and send it to curry favor with the army on the border.

Zhao Wantong and Huo Quai's soldiers were divided into two ways, Zhao Wantong went to the boat port to disturb the dog officer's reward, and Huo Quai's illness went to steal military rations.

The second step is to infiltrate the enemy camp.

Huo Qubing joined forces with the people of Kuhai City on the way to receive the army, and made a surprise attack to wipe out more than a dozen of them. Then, they were quickly stunned with drugs and thrown into a nearby cave. Take off your clothes and put them on your body.

Naturally, the food delivered to them was also fake, with fallen leaves and some gravel. Huo Qubing led more than a dozen villagers into the barracks and exchanged real and fake food. Because it is not the first time that the citizens of Dry Sea City have come here, not to mention that they are still natives for several generations, and they have successfully escaped the search of the soldiers, transported the grain into the small road, and put it in a safe place to store.

Huo Qubing took a break to inspect during their transportation. It was discovered that the general who was originally stationed here was the son of the Sanpin Lang official who had been impeached by the court. I heard that I was extremely afraid of death, and I was repeatedly defeated, but I was thick-skinned and hard-skinned, and I wanted to stay in the army to be the boss, Huo Quzhi sneered and said nothing.

When everything was ready, they immediately left for a moment.

On the other hand, Zhao Wantong also successfully infiltrated the concubine of the dog official Xinna. With only a good makeup technique, rouge gouache can be said to be easy to pinch in your hand. On the face of that little concubine, it was just Fan Dai Liushi who made her look beautiful and lovely from a stunning party. She looked at the bronze mirror, smiling on the left and smiling on the right, she couldn't put it down, and praised Zhao Wantong for his great kung fu and rewarded a series of gold.

Zhao Wantong smiled on his face, but he actually looked at the gold in his hand and thought of the girl yesterday, and felt a chill in his heart.

The people are suffering more and more, and this dog official doesn't know how many people in Dry Sea City can feed with the money of a concubine, but he is a cheap bone.

The time gradually came to noon, and the dog officer picked up the concubine in a big formation. Seeing her special makeup today, the dog official was even more happy. Zhao Wantong was behind and sneered: You should be happy now, you will have to suffer later!

Because today's makeup was painted by Zhao Wantong, Zhao Wantong must have made herself ugly in advance in order not to let the dog official see her, although Zhao Wantong didn't think she was good-looking, but Huo Qu was verbose, she didn't want to be annoyed, so she drew an ugly costume for herself.

I just got on the boat, and it took about ten minutes to go and it was very refreshing. The dog officer hugged the concubine and kissed me and me on the bow of the boat, and Zhao Wantong stepped forward to say to them.

"Why don't I play a song to cheer up?" The dog officer was in a very good mood, so he naturally agreed without thinking about it.

The thin fingers as white as congealed gel swing back and forth on the strings, undulating properly, and it is a wonderful song.

The sound of the piano gradually changed, and the two of them were stupid when they knew the rhythm.

Suddenly, several eagles flew down from the sky, circling the dog officer and the concubine, making the whole ship unpeaceful and the world turned upside down.

In the end, they scratched their faces and fell into the water. Zhao Wantong smiled with satisfaction.